The Illustrated Man

Product Description The Illustrated Man is classic Bradbury, a collection of eighteen startling visions of humankind's destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin, visions as keen as the tattooist's needle and as colorful as the inks that indelibly stain the body. The images, ideas, sounds and scents that abound in this phantasmagoric sideshow are provocative and powerful: the mournful cries of celestial travelers cast out cruelly into a vast space of stars and blackness, the sight of gray dust settling over a forgotten outpost on a road that leads nowhere, the pungent odor of Jupiter on a returning father's clothing. Here living cities take their vengeance, technology awakens the most primal natural instincts, Martian invasions are foiled by the good life and the glad hand, and dreams are carried aloft in junkyard rockets. Review 'Ray Bradbury has a powerful and mysterious imagination which would undoubtedly earn the respect of Edgar Allan Poe' (Guardian) 'It is impossible not to admire the vigour of his prose, similes and metaphors constantly cascading from his imagination' (Spectator) 'The sheer velocity of his words is an apocalyptic torrent which sweeps the reader on' Independent 'As a science fiction writer, Ray Bradbury has long been streets ahead of anyone else' (Daily Telegraph) 'Readers unfamiliar with what Bradbury at his best can do should look to The Illustrated Man.' Washington Post 'No other writer uses language with greater originality and zest. he seems to be a American Dylan Thomas with dsicipline' (Sunday Telegraph) 'Scientific fiction enclosed in a frame - wanderer meets a tattooed man whose images foretell the future, leaving a space to preview the destiny of the viewer. Here is an open circuit on ideas, which range from religion, to racial questions, to the atom bomb, rocket travel (of course), literature, escape to the past, dreams and hypnotism, children and their selfish and impersonal acceptance of immediate concepts, robots, etc. Note that here the emphasis is on fiction instead of science, and that the stories - in spite of space and futurities - have some validity, even if the derivations can be traced. Sample The Veldt, or This Man, or Fire Balloons, or The Last Night In the World for the really special qualities. A book which is not limited by its special field.' (Kirkus Reviews) --.

A must for sci-fi fans! --School Library Journal

Here is an open circuit on ideas, which range from religion, to racial questions, to the atom bomb, rocket travel (of course), literature, escape to the past, dreams and hypnotism, children and their selfish and impersonal acceptance of immediate concepts, robots, etc. --Kirkus ReviewsHere is an open circuit on ideas, which range from religion, to racial questions, to the atom bomb, rocket travel (of course), literature, escape to the past, dreams and hypnotism, children and their selfish and impersonal acceptance of immediate concepts, robots, etc. --Kirkus Reviews'Ray Bradbury has a powerful and mysterious imagination which would undoubtedly earn the respect of Edgar Allan Poe' (Guardian) 'It is impossible not to admire the vigour of his prose, similes and metaphors constantly cascading from his imagination' (Spectator) 'The sheer velocity of his words is an apocalyptic torrent which sweeps the reader on' Independent 'As a science fiction writer, Ray Bradbury has long been streets ahead of anyone else' (Daily Telegraph) 'Readers unfamiliar with what Bradbury at his best can do should look to The Illustrated Man.' Washington Post 'No other writer uses language with greater originality and zest. he seems to be a American Dylan Thomas with dsicipline' (Sunday Telegraph) 'Scientific fiction enclosed in a frame - wanderer meets a tattooed man whose images foretell the future, leaving a space to preview the destiny of the viewer. Here is an open circuit on ideas, which range from religion, to racial questions, to the atom bomb,